The decision is part of the European Union’s response to the threat of Hamas and the brutal terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
The European Union added Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, to the list of terrorists. This was stated in a statement by the European Council on Tuesday, January 16.
“Today the European Council decided to add another person to the list of terrorists. Yahya Sinwar, the political leader of Hamas,” the statement said.
It is known that Hamas was recognized by the EU as a terrorist organization in 2001. The inclusion in the list of terrorists involves the blocking of all funds and assets of Yahya Sinwar in the territory of the European Union.
Yahya Sinwar was born in 1962 in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. In the 1980s he became one of the founders of the Hamas group. He also participated in the creation of the paramilitary wing of Hamas, the al-Qassam Brigades. In 1988, Yahya Sinwar was sentenced by an Israeli court to four life sentences for the murders of suspected Hamas collaborators, as well as two Israeli soldiers.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar escaped from the Gaza Strip in a humanitarian convoy truck
Earlier it was reported that Israel promised not to attack 150 shelters in the Gaza Strip.
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